Valerie E. Stahl
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About Valerie
Stahl's mixed-methods research focuses on three key areas of urban planning and policy: public and affordable housing, community engagement, and zoning. She observes these issues through the lens of racial and economic (in)justice in planning, primarily focusing on planning processes in neighborhoods that are facing pressures of austerity, gentrification, and displacement. The goal of her work is to promote just and equitable urban development through policy-relevant and community-centered research.
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The Rent’s Too Goddamned High
In the News
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Examines resistance to a public housing redevelopment process in New York City. Finds that while the housing authority and residents had the same objective of preserving existing public housing, their desired paths to achieving that goal dramatically differed.
Examines zoning as both a technical tool and a politicized regulatory mechanism, focusing on its implications for urban equity and sustainability. Approaches zoning from a social science and planning perspective in order to engage students of urban planning, policy, and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice.